Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of EatingHoughton Mifflin, 1980 - 279 páginas How people eat reveals to an astonishing degree all of the other qualities of their society. A look at an American fast-food restaurant is as diagnostic of culture as a New Guinea headhunter's shopping list of edible relatives. Beginning with an explanation of what happens to a steak dinner--and to you--when you eat it, Farb constructs a fascinating demonstration of the connections between eating habits and human behavior, explaining, for example, why Bantu society would unravel without beer, why Chinese don't drink milkshakes, and why Moslems and Jews abhor pork. |
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... cannibalism ) has been reported by people from Western societies in virtually all parts of the world . Accusing native peoples of such reprehensible acts gave the colonial powers a justification for conquest : It was necessary to end ...
... cannibalism ) has been reported by people from Western societies in virtually all parts of the world . Accusing native peoples of such reprehensible acts gave the colonial powers a justification for conquest : It was necessary to end ...
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... cannibalism , as a source of food , and ritual cannibalism , for supernatural ends . The cannibalism of highland New Guineans is primarily gastronomic ; a more com- mon intention , though , is to acquire the spiritual qualities or ...
... cannibalism , as a source of food , and ritual cannibalism , for supernatural ends . The cannibalism of highland New Guineans is primarily gastronomic ; a more com- mon intention , though , is to acquire the spiritual qualities or ...
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... cannibalism known from else- where in the world have been for ritual purposes . Anthropologists familiar with New Guinea cannibals point out that the supply of animal protein there is similarly limited , since the forests offer little ...
... cannibalism known from else- where in the world have been for ritual purposes . Anthropologists familiar with New Guinea cannibals point out that the supply of animal protein there is similarly limited , since the forests offer little ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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